Management Server Collision Handling for Mobility Use Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional systems face challenges in accurately tracking the use of mobile bodies, such as vehicles, due to discrepancies between contracted or reserved use dates and actual usage, especially in scenarios without contracts or reservations, leading to difficulties in managing use relations effectively.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a management server and terminals that establish and manage correspondence relations between users and mobile bodies, allowing for the tracking of use relations by accepting linking demands and applying predetermined rules to resolve potential collisions, ensuring accurate tracking and settlement of use relations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If correspondence relations are established between first targets and second targets in a many-to-many system, then the system can track diverse use relations flexibly, but conflicts arise when multiple correspondence relations overlap (collision problems)

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflexibility in tracking use relationsVSAvoidaccuracy of use relation tracking
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The management server implements a feedback mechanism where it monitors established correspondence relations and automatically detects collisions. When a collision is detected between multiple correspondence relations for the same first target or second target, the system provides feedback by notifying relevant terminals and managing the collision according to predetermined rules, ensuring accurate tracking despite the flexible many-to-many structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The management server acts as an intermediary between first terminals and second terminals. It mediates the establishment of correspondence relations by receiving linking demands, checking for collisions with existing relations, and managing the relations according to predetermined rules. This intermediary role resolves conflicts while maintaining system flexibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If the system automatically manages correspondence relations and resolves collisions, then use relation tracking accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of use relation trackingVSAvoidcomplexity of collision management system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The management server implements self-service functionality by automatically detecting collisions between correspondence relations and resolving them according to predetermined rules without requiring external intervention. The system monitors its own state, identifies conflicts, and applies resolution logic autonomously, maintaining high tracking accuracy while managing complexity through automation rather than manual processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20250104082A1System and management server
Publication Date: 2025.03.27 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A management server according to an aspect of the present disclosure accepts setting of a correspondence relation by receiving a linking demand in response to occurrence of a use relation between a first target and a second target. If a second correspondence relation between a first first target and a second second target different from a first second target is accepted while setting of a first correspondence relation between the first first target and the first second target is established, the management server (I) releases the first correspondence relation, and establishes setting of the second correspondence relation, or (II) does not permit setting the second correspondence relation, and maintains the setting of the first correspondence relation, according to a predetermined rule.